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by philjohn 4y ago
the Texas law states you can't geofence TX or not operate in the state, which is forcing service.
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by philjohn 4y ago
It really isn't - far more political discourse occurs on Twitter.
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by philjohn 4y ago
So a theatre can't evict someone for ruining the performance for everyone? A concert venue can't evict someone for smuggling in alcohol?
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by philjohn 4y ago
And, barring statewide elections, is vulnerable to gerrymandering.
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by philjohn 4y ago
But as we've seen in the UK, and the US it leaves a great deal of people, especially those in safe (or gerrymandered) districts feeling unrepresented. UKIP getting 13% of the vote in a general election, showing a large amount of suppor
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by philjohn 4y ago
And crucially, no adverts
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by philjohn 4y ago
The UK has more sensible rules (because the edge of the road is inherently unsafe with things like drains). A cyclist is perfectly entitled to take the centre of the lane, and cyclists may ride two abreast. It's up to the car to effect
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by philjohn 4y ago
This. The moment Huw Edwards appeared wearing a black suit and tie it was obvious.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Dail Brailsford is the man who initiated it with Team GB - https://jamesclear.com/marginal-gains
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by philjohn 4y ago
And we've seen examples from other domains where 1% here, 0.5% there adds up to meaningful gains (I'm talking of the marginal gains philosophy of UK cycling, and then Team Sky). If we write off every "This will only help 1%&q
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by philjohn 4y ago
The argument there is that you should probably have looked at a workstation CPU and board, e.g. ThreadRipper.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Except in many cases they actively hid, and lobbied against, measures that would have helped. The big oil companies all had research showing what emissions would do - and they buried them, and lobbied governments for tax breaks, to gut publ
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by philjohn 4y ago
Wow she could have made a killing shorting the stock ... yet didn't.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Ha! I wonder if we worked at the same place ... it's in the travel space, because when I worked there someone wrote a plugin that did this, and it was a real eye opener at times!
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by philjohn 4y ago
Tesla have been doing this with Octopus Energy in the UK. Essentially you get a big discount on the Per KWh price of electricity, but give up control of your powerwall to Tesla to operate their "virtual power station" https:&#x2F
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by philjohn 4y ago
He makes bank on the Diddly Squat Farm Shop though - great produce, but not cheap. His hot sausage is AMAZING if you're a heat fan.
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by philjohn 4y ago
I suppose it depends on data centre locations. Data centre on the west coast? I'd be wary, mostly central and east coast? Less of a worry.
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by philjohn 4y ago
It really is - because not only is it hilarious, it also highlights just how difficult modern farming has become - razor thin margins, at the whims of the weather, dealing with vandlism from local youths with nothing better to do etc. etc.
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by philjohn 4y ago
What's it like at idle though? Since it's a home server, when it's not receiving backups from computers in the house, or streaming media via Plex it's sitting there at < 15w, which is low enough not to worry about.
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by philjohn 4y ago
This is why for my home server I didn't get second hand servers but built the following in a 2U case that fits in my network closet: Asrock Rack c246 WSI (Mini ITX workstation board) 32GB DDR4 ECC Udimms (16GB x2) Core i3 9100T (25w, l
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by philjohn 4y ago
Some of the hyperscalers area already experimenting with this - https://blog.google/inside-google/infrastructure/data-center...
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by philjohn 4y ago
That's why in RDF you should really be using a well-modelled ontology. As for performance issues, using a dedicated Quad store helps there, rather than one built on top of an RDBMS (OpenLink Virtuoso excluded, because somehow they mana
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by philjohn 4y ago
To be fair, in the consumer space, he seemed to be holding them back. In the data centre acceleration space, they're still essentially using a descendant of the Vega uArch.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Although "authorize everything" can also be confusing - so, what, you just let anything query your system?
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by philjohn 4y ago
I used Apple Maps ONCE in my CarPlay enabled car. I asked for directions to my daughter's school. It took me somewhere 5 miles away, but in the general area. It's not a small or unknown school either, it's a well known and la
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by philjohn 4y ago
And that would be fine and dandy if the permission request was allowed to be in the same format the Apple App store one uses - but it isn't. It's blatant.
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by philjohn 4y ago
And now you don't have to - and don't have to wait 30 days for it to be shipped to you from China.
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by philjohn 4y ago
They can - but that's a higher barrier than "Pay $35".
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by philjohn 4y ago
Tile never became ubiquitous though - but yes, I agree, if it can't be done in a way that can be abused, it shouldn't be a product. But money talks, and Apple have decided they're comfortable with the risks because it's
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by philjohn 4y ago
As someone who has found multiple small businesses that I use regularly, and wouldn't have without ads that are relevant, I vehemently disagree.

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